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 Oct 31 2007, 01:48 PM
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Disk read error Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot Or No boot device available - strike F1 to reboot, or F2 to run setup utility So I take out the new gfx card thinking it's faulty, and put in the stock one (stock for a Dell Dimension 4700..An ATI Radeon x300 128MB I think) and now I still get those 2 same errors, even though I'm almost positive the card is seated properly. Please help! |
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Oct 31 2007, 02:55 PM
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 Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,872 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
Those two errors mean a HDD ( Hard disk drive ) failure. Make sure it didnt come unplugged accidently.
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD,2 Dell 19" Flat Panel monitors, XFX 512mb OC'd Geforce 9500, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and A Modded Palm TX HandHeld. |
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Oct 31 2007, 02:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 25-October 07 Member No.: 165,345 |
Update:
Now I try to start up and it tells me No boot device available, as well as Primary SATA Hard Drive failure or it doesn't detect at all. I tried unplugging and replugging the plug from the PSU as well as the SATA cable, and even tried a brand new SATA cable..Still nothing. |
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Oct 31 2007, 02:56 PM
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Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,872 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
Well that changes things.. Does the bios detect the drive?
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD,2 Dell 19" Flat Panel monitors, XFX 512mb OC'd Geforce 9500, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and A Modded Palm TX HandHeld. |
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Oct 31 2007, 02:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 25-October 07 Member No.: 165,345 |
I'm not sure if it is or isn't..The first error message in my first post doesn't even appear anymore. Now it's just "No boot device available", "Primary SATA Hard Drive failure", or "No SATA Hard Drive detected" (The third one I've only received twice, and noticed I didn't have it plugged in even though I thought it was..stupid gaps)
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Oct 31 2007, 04:27 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 25-October 07 Member No.: 165,345 |
Still getting "No boot device available"..any ideas?
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Oct 31 2007, 06:18 PM
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Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 7,459 Joined: 3-September 05 From: Killeen, TX Member No.: 33,068 |
To me, no boot device generally means that XP is trying to boot from where it expects the boot files to be...but it ain't happening.
I'd start with the connections (as suggested), move to the BIOS boot options, the MBR, the drive itself. FWIW: It's important to write down error messages when they appear, they are meant to provide a path to start down. Louis |
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